Kabal of the Dark Night - Prologue

Deep in the darkest corners of the dark city Commoragh, the home of the “True Eldar”, lies “The Spire of the Dark Night” and the Kabal that dwells within its armoured walls. The spire stands no taller than most of the kabal bases in Commoragh and at a first glance would seem almost inoffensive in appearance, but little is truly known about the contents of this nefarious structure and even less is really known about the occupants, The Kabal of the Dark Night.

This kabal’s origins and history had been all but been wiped out during “The Fall”, the cataclysmic event that birthed “She Who Thirsts” and nearly extinguished the entire Eldar race. After what few Eldar that managed to survive had managed to escape into the web way, they soon split into factions as the Dark City grew around them  and to a degree the city shielded the remaining “True Eldar” from the ever hungry clutches of “She Who Thirsts”.

Little is known of the Archon of the Dark Night, what is known pointed to the Archon being part of a respected family before the fall, they had never truly given into the temptations of the other Eldar, they had merely been voyeurs of the fall rather than victims, however like the other Eldar eventually felt the gnawing of “She Who Thirsts” at their souls but had discipline enough not to indulge too much in the dark arts required to keep her at bay. The Dark Night was one of the few Kabal’s in the Dark City not to employ the services of a Haemonculi or any of their unnatural creations such as Wracks, Grotesques or Scourges, despite their wealth. The Archon believed them to be abominations and would never turn to them for aid or help regardless of how desperate they became.  The Archon’s love for heavy firepower was one of the only real pieces of information known about the mysterious Archon, little other evidence pointing towards their identity or heritage. What mystified the citizens of the Dark City more was how the Dark Night had survived the rise of the tyrant Asdrubael Vect as he became overlord of Commorragh and in doing so had all but wiped out the noble houses that commanded the Dark City during its infancy. This apparent overlook scared most and intrigued others, but no one would dare speak of it, in case of incurring the wrath of the Tyrant.

However it has been known rarely for forces from the Dark Night to join raids onto real space worlds, even if few in number they have aided by loaning their fleets of Ravager gunships and Razorwing jetfighters to sizeable raids with the most rewards. These forces disappear as quickly as they arrive back to the spire after taking the rewards owed for their services. It has even been noted that their forces have been seen allied with their craftworld cousins in defence of their borders from imperial forces, providing crucial heavy support to the crude weaponry of their craftworld brethren, no knowledge of how this alliance came to be is known and many have questioned the kabal’s actions to no avail.

Over the last few months the kabal has been the hot topic in Commorragh with more whispers being spread about their forces. These rumours have included many tales such as; the Kabal is preparing for a lone raid into real space to attack the imperium of man, they plan to attack the Tau empire, they intend to conquer the warp to destroy “She Who Thirsts”, the kabal is planning a coup against the tyrant and even that the kabal has formed a secret alliance with the tyrant’s forces in the Black Heart kabal to help give the Black Heart power absolute within Commorragh.

Many rumours are rife inside the eternal city with little to no fact being known, the only evidence of increased activity from the kabal at present is a mysterious signal that started being generated from the spire of the Dark Night, a signal so strong its been sent not only round the webway, into every facet of Commorragh but piercing the very fabric of the webway itself and being transmitted into real space itself.

Its message being short yet repeating over and over again …..

“We are the Dark Night & We Are Coming”. 

WWE Elimination Chamber 2014

Welcome to the 2014 Elimination Chamber PPV event, I’m Big Boss and you can follow me on twitter @bigboss010 and you can follow my good friend and tag partner 12ve-Pac @siteofshite. This PPV is generally quite a good show leading to Wrestlemania as we usually get to see two Elimination Chamber matches, however this year we only have the 1 Chamber match as now we only have 1 champion, but probably for the best. Some nice little matches lined for the show too some of which I’m quite looking forward to, I’m quite excited about this PPV, the final stop on the “Road To Wrestlemania”.

Match # 1 Intercontinental Title Match

Big E (c) vs. Jack Swagger with Zeb Colter

As Swagger enters, we get a quick Zeb Colter promo, he says that the E in Big E means enough, we have had enough of Big E as the IC champ. I don’t like Big E that much myself, this Swagger would make a good IC champ personally, think he needs the belt to actually gain some momentum going forward. However I imagine that Big E will pick up the win here, WWE seems behind him and obviously wants him to be pushed. Quite a few “we the people” chants, more cheers for Swagger than there were for Big E in this match.

Big E hits Swagger with the Big Ending to get the 3 count pinfall on Jack Swagger, was actually quite a good match, both guys actually looked really good, great spot with Big E hitting a spear through the middle rope to take himself and Swagger down to the floor on the outside.

Segment 1

Bad News Barrett arrives and explains how Russia has won more Olympic medals than the USA.

Backstage we are with Daniel Bryan, he is asked about his mindset tonight, he says he is 100% focused on the chamber match and he will fight his hardest to win the title tonight. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!

Match #2 Tag Team Title Match

New Age Outlaws (c) vs. The Uso’s

As much as I love the New Age Outlaws, I really don’t think they should be tag team champions, but I think they are just looking for a heel team to drop the belts to the Uso’s.  It’s a shame that the Outlaws are too damn popular to be considered real heels. The Uso’s have been building some popularity as of late they have a quick style in the ring and their entrance has also picked them up some fans too.

Billy Gunn rolls up Uso #1 to retain their tag team championships, wasn’t a mind blowing match because no offence to the Outlaws but they are just too confusing with regards to whether they are face or heel and they just shouldn’t be the tag champs in 2014.

Segment 2

Bad News Barrett is back, this time to deliever some bad news to Daniel Bryan fans, he tells them that he won’t win the title in the chamber and then the Yes Movement will die.

Match # 3

Titus O’Neil vs. Darren Young

I was absolutely gutted when I heard that WWE had split up the Prime Time Players because I loved the gimmick with the “Millions of Dollars” gimmick and they were actually a tag team and considering that WWE were going to put more effort into the tag team division they seem pretty bent on splitting up established teams. I give it 3 – 6 months and at least 1 of these guys will be “Future Endeavoured”.

Titus O’Neil wins the match after hitting Darren Young with the “Clash of the Titus”, wasn’t too bad actually, just a shame that they broke up a cool tag team to make this match happen.

Segment 3

Bad News Barrett is back again!!! This time to tell everyone that he is better than Hulk Hogan... wtf!!!

Josh Matthews is with Mark Henry, The Miz and Rey Mysterio for the Elimination Chamber panel, they talk about the pre show match with Curtis Axel and Ryback vs. The Rhodes Brothers.

Match # 4 – 6 Man Tag Team Match

The Wyatt Family vs. The Shield

This match has been in the works for a long time, the fans have obviously wanted to see this match for a while too, and it is going to be an epic match I think. Both teams have been on a collision course for a while especially considering just how dominant both teams have been, I do think however they could have waited to have this match at Wrestlemania 30 instead of this PPV. I’m not even sure who I am really behind in this match, the Shield have done very well in big PPV matches like this, but the WWE seems quite solid in their pushing of the Wyatt family too and if the plan is to have Bray Wyatt vs John Cena at Wrestlemania then they need to get a win here to lead to the match.

This is a match of the year candidate!!! Fantastic match!!

Bray Wyatt pins Roman Reigns after hitting him with the “Sister Abigail” to give the Wyatt Family the win here in what can only be described as a FUCKING AWESOME match. This had some high flying spots from both teams and the double chokeslam to Seth Rollins through the announcers table was brilliant. The Roman Reigns come back at the end was brilliant and it’s a match of the year candidate I think, hopefully we will get a rematch down the road. Bray winning this match was good too because it pushes him on his road to face Cena at Wrestlemania.

Segment 4

Christian is in the back with Rene, he says he desperate to win the WWE title.

Match # 5 – WWE Divas Championship Match

AJ Lee (c) With Tamina vs. Cameron

Ok an impromptu Divas title match, oh look over there.... Something REALLY REALLY COOL!!

Cameron wins by DQ after Tamina pulls her out of the ring. Short match and made no real sense.

Segment 5

Another Bad News Barrett appearance, mentions that the WWE network goes online and that everyone will lose their jobs because they will be spending so much time watching the WWE network. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING??????!

In the back with Santino playing with a wrestling toy, then Emma walks in to speak to him, then Khali walks in too and followed by Los Matadores. Santino sneaks out and the rest play with the toys..... WTF!!!!

Match # 6

Batista vs. Alberto Del Rio

Batista is going to have his hands full here I think with Del Rio, provided they let him get some offence in of course and since the build for this match hasn’t been overly brilliant they should let them have a reasonably balanced match. The match itself was set up on twitter just before Batista’s return, and was then confirmed after the Royal Rumble ppv.

Del Rio enters wearing full clothing, using a crutch and brandishing a neck brace, he says he will not be able to compete, but then attacks Batista with his crutch, undresses and is set to compete, what an ambush!!! The crowd do not like Batista, they are firmly behind Del Rio in this match and the commentary team cannot believe it.

Batista beats Alberto Del Rio after hitting him with the Batista Bomb and then pinning Del Rio. Wasn’t a great match to be honest, was mainly Del Rio beating on Batista until Batista caught Del Rio for the bomb. Crowd were not into Batista in this match, so many chants for Del Rio it was unreal and that makes me laugh.

Segment 6

Back with the Elimination Chamber panel, Miz says Bryan will win, Henry says Sheamus will win and Rey Mysterio says Cesaro will win.

Match # 7 – WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match – Elimination Chamber

Randy Orton (c) vs. John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Sheamus vs. Christian vs. Cesaro

This chamber match has to be the most anticipated chamber match in recent memory, with Cesaro getting a major push, people getting behind him in a big way and then Daniel Bryan who is one of the most popular superstars in recent years owing it mainly to a single word “YES”. Cena who always gets a reaction from the crowds wherever he goes, Sheamus recently returning at the Royal Rumble and Christian who returned shortly after that are also not new to this game so these guys including the current champion Randy Orton should put on one hell of a show here I think.

Cesaro and Sheamus are starting the match as the #1 and #2 entrants.

Entrant # 3 is Daniel Bryan, quite shocking that I would have put money on it being Christian since he wasn’t in the starting two!

Entrant # 4 is Christian, Captain Charisma enters the match, much later than I expected too.

Entrant # 5 is John Cena, that is even more suprising, I expected him to be last to be honest, really thought Orton would be in 5^th, but its good that the champ is in last.

Entrant # 6 is Orton... Obviously, didn’t you read the last paragraph?

Elimination # 1, Christian splashes Sheamus from the top of a cell and pins Sheamus to eliminate him from the match, not my call for 1^st elimination, but am happily surprised! Go Christian!

Elimination # 2, shortly after this of course Daniel Bryan knees Christian in the face to eliminate him from the match via pinfall! GUTTING!!!

Elimination # 3, Cesaro then after an amazing display of power by german suplexing Cena while trying to AA Daniel Bryan, sadly taps out to the STF! Man Down!

WYATT FAMILY are here and they are inside the chamber and attack Cena and Bryan but then quickly focus on Cena alone. Cena gets double teamed and then gets a “Sister Abigail” from Bray Wyatt, the Wyatt’s then leave the chamber.

Elimination # 4, Orton then sneaks in and pins John Cena to eliminate him from the match.

Kane comes out and throws the Wyatt family out of the ringside area. Then enters the chamber to check on Cena, but Bryan Attacks him like an idiot!!! We can take a big guess about what is going to happen here now!

Bryan knees Orton in the face and just as he is about to get the pinfall Kane pulls the ref out to stop the count, Orton then gets back up and RKOs Bryan but only gets a 2!

Elimination # 5, Kane cheap shots the recovering Bryan, Orton hit another RKO and this time gets the 3 count to pin Bryan and retain the WWE title.

Quite a cool match, didn’t go as I expected to be honest and I like it when I’m surprised like this. Knew the Wyatt’s were going to get involved and had an idea that Kane would get involved too if Bryan got as far as he did. Overall it wasn’t a bad PPV actually, continued the stories that we all knew were coming and sets up nicely for Wrestlemania 30. I cannot wait to see the show with my good friend 12ve-Pac and as usual it will be an amazing atmosphere there. Imagine we will do some videos for the old youtube channel so keep your eyes open for them

You can follow me on Twitter @bigboss010 and 12ve-Pac @siteofshite too. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoyed the show as much as me.

Ive been Big Boss and I’ll see you! At Wresltmania 30! I’m Out! ..... Peace. 

UFC 170: UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship fight Rousey vs McMann

I have wanted to write a UFC report for a while, not really that into UFC so will probably be a case of just writing about the fights I actually care about for the time being. This fight will see Sara McMann is challenging Ronda Rousey for the UFC women’s championship. This fight is set for 5, 5 minute rounds.

McMann is currently at this stage undefeated with 7 wins under her belt, she is an Olympic silver medalist in wrestling which she won at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens and has been a professional fighter since 2007, I think wrestling is a huge part of the UFC base, it will be interesting to see how she manages to utilize it in this fight.

Ronda Rousey is the current UFC women’s champion and is the self proclaimed “heel” in UFC, stating that everyone wants her to fail and that she will continue to disappoint them. She has won all her fights at this stage and has beaten 7 of her opponents in round 1 and to top that all her wins at this stage have come from using the arm bar submission. She won a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing China. A good contrast to the Wrestler opponent, the Judo should also provide an interesting challenge for McMann.

TALE OF THE TAPE

Ronda Rousey (c)

Born: USA

Age: 27

Height: 5’7”

Weight: 135

Reach: 66”

Sara McMann

Born: USA

Age: 33

Height: 5’6”

Weight: 135

Reach: 66”

Round 1

Both ladies come out swinging but McMann ends up backed against the cage, however just as she fights out Rousey puts her back on the cage wall, throwing the odd knee into the side of McMann, Rousey knees McMann in the gut by the liver area and McMann drops down to the floor and the ref stops the fight there.

At 1 minute 6 seconds into the fight Rousey retains her Bantamweight women’s belt and for the 1^st time not winning by the arm bar. Well that wasn’t much of a fight really; entrances and announcements were longer than the actual fight, a bit gutting really, had hyped myself up quite a bit for this fight too, bet the paying crowd were a bit miffed too. Looking like her next opponent will be Cat Zingano who is the current ranked #1 in the women’s division after Rousey, so may be worth a watch when that fight happens.

Thanks for joining me on this really short write up, you can follow me on twitter @bigboss010 or follow my tag team partner over @siteofshite. I’ve been Big Boss and I’m out, peace. 

ROYAL RUMBLE 2014

Well we are back again for another ROYAL RUMBLE, this time though sadly i’m not with my main man 12ve-Pac for this event, you can catch him on twitter @Siteofshite and follow them on the blogspot too. I’m Big Boss and you can follow me on twitter too @bigboss010. This is shaping up to be an interesting Royal Rumble and I don’t think many fans will walk out of this show happy.

The kick off show surprised me with the NEW AGE OUTLAWS winning the WWE tag team titles from the Rhodes Brothers.....

Never mind though ay, time for the show. 

Match # 1 Bray Wyatt vs. Daniel Bryan

The build to this match has been rushed to hell, Bryan joined the Wyatt family only to turn on them 2 WEEKS LATER!!! What was the point, he should have hidden within the ranks till the Rumble match really then throw Wyatt out to turn face again, but that’s just my booking I guess, I know guys who would have held out even longer. Daniel Bryan has become a MAJOR fan favourite and it is a bit of a shame that WWE don’t seem to have this guys back, but at the end of the day his main events didn’t draw what they expected so WWE is all about the money. Both these guys must have looked at each other before they entered the arena and said “Lets knock this out of the park”.

Bray Wyatt wins by pinfall after hitting Bryan with the “Sister Abigail”. Was a really good match and had some really cool moments including Wyatt catching Bryan in mid flight and hitting him with a “Sister Abigail” against the outside barricade. The fans seemed really into this match but went dead at the end when Bryan lost. A lot of people think Wyatt will be facing Cena at Wrestlemania and its looking good with that win.

Segment 1

Rene is in the back with Heyman, who says that Lesnar is going to victimise Big Show in their match.

Josh Matthews is with the Hall of Fame PPV panel, Ric Flair, Jim Duggan and Shawn Michaels. Talk about Lesnar vs Big Show.

Match # 2 Brock Lesnar with Paul Heyman vs. The Big Show

Been built pretty well by the both of them so should be interesting to watch, but this match really needs to be a pretty short match with Lesnar winning quickly to look dominant, but I have a feeling that it’s going to be longer than it should be. But still Lesnar is great so who cares.  Lesnar pre-emptive strikes Big Show and smashes him with a chair and continues the onslaught for a while until the ref gets rid of the chair. The match then begins.

Wow, that was a great little match, Big Show comes back for a minute but Lesnar ducks the KO punch and smashes Big Show with the F5 to get the pin fall victory. Great Lesnar looked good and the match didn’t go on for too long which is also good. Lesnar then gets back into the ring and smashes Big Show again with a chair with Heyman cheering at ringside, beating him so brutally that he changes chairs half way through. Brilliant. The pre and post match beat downs have been longer than the actual match... I like it. Then Lesnar and Heyman walk away.

Segment 2

The Shield are in the back and they talk themselves up going into the Royal Rumble.

Rene is with Orton talking about his title match with Cena, says he is going to beat Cena again and how no one will beat him.

Match # 3 WWE World Heavyweight Championship match

Randy Orton (c) Vs. John Cena

The build for this match has been a little recycled with Orton attacking Cena’s father at a show. It’s good to see Orton on top instead of Cena but still I think the live crowds aren’t that into the Orton reign as champion. These guys have had some good matches in the past but also some real stinkers so this match really could go either way and with the crowd really just wanting Bryan nonstop I imagine the chants will be varied to say the least. We get a “WE WANT DIVAS” chant during the match which makes me laugh at least.

The Wyatt family appear at ringside and Cena is distracted long enough for Orton to hit the RKO to get the pin fall to retain the title, he then leaves through the crowd avoiding the Wyatt family. The Wyatt family then attack Cena after the match and leave him laid out after Bray hits Cena with “Sister Abigail”.

Now I didn’t think that was a bad match overall but the crowd really weren’t into it but I didn’t mind it, moved Orton on as the champ and allowed Cena’s next opponent to be previewed.

Segment 3

Rene is in the back with the New Age Outlaws the new WWE Tag Team champions, she talks about the match. Road Dogg reveals that its 14 years since they last held the tag belts.

Advert for Elimination chamber featuring Steph Mac.... the things I could do to her in an Elimination Chamber!!!! ;-)

Back to the Legends Panel with Josh Matthews, they pick their favourites. Duggan says Ziggler, HBK says The Shield / Punk and Flair says Batista.

Match # 4 – The Royal Rumble

YOU KNOW THE RULES.... DONT MESS ABOUT SON!!

My pick for this match is Batista by the way; it makes sense if they want him to face Orton at Wrestlemania 30. “EXACTLY”

ENTRANTS

1.       CM PUNK

2.       Seth Rollins

3.       Damien Sandow

4.       Cody Rhodes

5.       Kane

6.       Alexander Rusev (From NXT)

7.       Jack Swagger “

8.       Kofi Kingston

9.       Jimmy Uso (both look the bloody same)

10.   Goldust

11.   Dean Ambrose

12.   Dolph Ziggler

13.   R-Truth

14.   Kevin Nash

15.   Roman Reigns

16.   The Great Khali

17.   SHEAMUS

18.   Mr Oulett (The Miz)

19.   Fan – Dan - Go

20.   El Torito (The Midget)

21.   Antonio Cesaro “You could time it yourself but they stole your watch”

22.   Luke Harper (Wyatt Family)

23.   Jey Uso (The Other Uso)

24.   JBL – “YOU STILL GOT IT”

25.   Eric Rowan (Wyatt Family)

26.   Ryback

27.   Alberto Del Rio

28.   Batista

29.   Big E Langston

30.   Rey Mysterio

ELIMINATIONS

1.       Damien Sandow  by CM PUNK

2.       Kane by CM PUNK

3.       Alexander Rusev by 4 guys

4.       R-Truth by Dean Ambrose

5.       Jimmy Uso by Dean Ambrose

6.       Jack Swagger by Kevin Nash

7.       Kofin Kingston by Roman Reigns

8.       Dolph Ziggler by Roman Reigns

9.       Kevin Nash by Roman Reigns

10.   The Great Khali by The Shield

11.   Cody Rhodes by Goldust

12.   Goldust by Roman Reigns

13.   Fandango by El Torito

14.   El Torito by Roman Reigns

15.   JBL by Roman Reigns

16.   The Miz By Luke Harper

17.   Jay Uso by Luke Harper

18.   Eric Rowan by Batista

19.   Ryback by Batista

20.   Alberto Del Rio by Batista

21.   Big E Langston by Sheamus

22.   Rey Mysterio by Seth Rollins

23.   Luke Harper by Roman Reigns

24.   Antonio Cesaro by Roman Reigns

25.   Dean Ambrose by Roman Reigns

26.   Seth Rollins by Roman Reigns

27.   CM PUNK by Kane

28.   Sheamus by Roman Reigns

29.   Roman Reigns by Batista

Batista (TOLD YOU SO) will be going to Wrestlemania to face the WWE world heavyweight champion for the belt in the main event, or at least the middle of the card. The crowd are NOT happy about that, an arena full of “NO” chants and boos. Well people if you wanted Bryan in the main event maybe you should have paid for Summerslam 2013 instead of illegally downloading or streaming it! HA HA! I like Batista and will be interesting enough to see him in the title match at Mania.

Not a bad PPV event, could have been a lot worse, the Rumble match was really fun I thought and it’s gutting that JBL didn’t even get to hit the clothesline, sad times. But again the PPV was quite cool. My 1 main negative was that the tag team title match wasn’t on the card, when it really should have been, but we can’t have everything and I know that.

Well next stop on the road to Wrestlemania 30 is Elimination Chamber, I look forward to writing that review for you and again follow me on twitter @bigboss010 and my pal Luke @siteofshite.

I’ve been Big Boss and I’m out.... peace.

Potential TAU force idea.

In another Warhammer 40k related post I’m going to be looking into the TAU, if I had the funds, patience and inclination I would be balls deep into buying these guys, as I briefly mentioned in my Chaos / Daemons post I love shooting armies, LOVE THEM! The Tau embody everything that’s good and wholesome about brute firepower and some of their units can lay down a surprising amount of this. As usual we start at the top with our HQ choices.

My personal favourite is the Cadre Fireblade, for no other reason than he can give your pulse weapons an extra shot provided you haven’t moved your men, meaning that a 12 man fire warrior team plus Cadre Fireblade can let off 39 shots at rapid fire if they haven’t moved that turn, not bad and that doesn’t even include if you have taken any drones either! The 2^nd HQ choice for me is the character DarkStrider who is essentially the Rambo of the pathfinders, he can team with your fire warrior squad giving them SCOUT and the ability to consolidate after firing overwatch which is very handy I would say, he also makes every non veichle target you fire at – 1 toughness, which again is pretty handy! I think teaming these two HQ choices together with a Fire Warrior squad is just the smart thing to do.

Onto the Troop choices, I have selected a squad of both choices. We can start with the Fire Warriors first, a full 12 man squad teamed with the two HQ choices will just be nasty, between number of shots and decreased toughness of the targets you should rack up plenty of wounds on any squad you open fire at. I haven’t upgraded them with any drones or anything but if you wanted MORE shots you could easily add a couple of gun drones in for a giggle, you can even add drones to the Cadre Fireblade too for even MORE shots! Points allowing of course. I also decided to throw in some Kroot, as they can now be given sniper rounds in their guns, I think I have gone with a squad of 15 all with sniper rounds available, imagine that if you get some good rolling you can make quick work of almost anything and then if you moving them with your fire warriors you get a bit of extra protection for them as fire warriors have the supporting fire special rule, sadly the Kroot do not but they do  have infiltrate so can get up close and personal very quickly to ensure they can get some shots off.

Ok onto Fast Attack, I originally went with a flyer unit, but I hate flyers so I changed my mind and went with the Pathfinder unit, it’s small as I am only using the 4 man squad and 3 of them are all upgraded to rail rifles, which at 30 inch range, strength 6 and AP1 you cannot grunt about them. These guys have SCOUT too so can get nice and close quickly to be shooting range. A great unit to have running with your Fire warriors and Kroot troops, one hell of a load of men with great guns all aiming in your enemies general direction. NICE!

The Elites choice was an easy one to make; I have simply decided that 2 riptides are the way to go! Both Riptides taking the Ion accelerator upgrade instead of taking the standard the burst cannon.  Then using upgrades to take sky fire, also interceptor and the two shielded missile drones they can take too. So overall a very harsh shooting unit and the enemy have to deal with two of them and even then only after they have gotten rid of the two shielded missile drones and at toughness 6 and a +4 invulnerable save to hide behind it’s going to be potentially a challenge.

The thing you have been waiting for is here, you cant make a Tau force without the HEAVY SUPPORT option, this heavy support bracket fills out nicely kicking off with a sky ray missile gunship, fantastic sky fire ability so can throw some serious shooting at airborne targets as well as replacing the two gun drones for a smart missile system then using the upgrade to give the tank overwatch with its strength 5 weapons, the smart missile system falling into this category. The next heavy unit is a 3 man broadside battlesuit team; now this was an easy choice with the rail rifle as their primary weapon and the smart missile systems as their secondary weapon. Two of the battlesuits are using the upgrade to give them interceptor while the other is using the skyfire special rule upgrade to give them one hell of a level of suppression firepower on anything that flies in or deep strikes in as well. Then to captain the Heavy Support options in this force we have the Hammerhead gunship, piloted by the LongStrike upgrade. The Hammerhead itself has a strength 10 AP1 heavy 1 gun which isn’t to be trifled with and this is backed up by a twin linked smart missile system. Ok onto the Longstrike upgrade, this gives the tank some new bits such as an increased BS to 5 instead of 4, it can overwatch and not just once but only once per target and has black sun filter ignoring the night fight rule making this guy a pretty tough cookie to deal with when he is aiming at you.

That about wraps up my army idea and that’s just what it is, an idea, whether this would beat everything is questionable but I do believe that this would give any force a run for its money on paper, however you cannot account for dice rolling on the day and how your opponent’s dice rolls go on the day too. I do think this will suffer against serious horde forces but against a general balanced force I do honestly believe that this can handle anything that gets thrown at it.

If you have the models to do this army then please be my guest to take it for a test drive and see if it fits ok and please let me know if you do, would love to hear about it.

You can follow me on twitter @bigboss010 and you can also follow my cohorts @KingJimmeh & @siteofshite too. I’ve been Big Boss and I’m out… Peace.

WWE Survivor Series 2013

Welcome once again to another Big Boss review for this the 2013 Survivor Series; this is usually one of my favourite PPVs of the year so we will see what this year’s PPV holds for us. You can catch me on Twitter @bigboss010 and you can catch my partners over @siteofshite and my good friend Jim over @KingJimmeh for all your comic type stuff.

We start with HHH and Steph Mac coming out and welcoming the audience to the Survivor Series.

Match # 1 – Survivor Series Match

Rey Mysterio, Cody Rhodes, Goldust & The Usos Vs. The Real Americans & The Shield

Rey Mysterio returned on the “go home” show before this PPV to be added into the mix for this match so has added very little to the build; however the Usos and the Rhodes brothers have certainly been in the mix with regards to the Real Americans and the Shield over the last few weeks.

It’s good that we are seeing more of a focus on tag team wrestling as I myself am a huge fan of tag team wrestling and so is my tag team cohort 12ve Pac.

The Bad guy teams here are really over with the fans and it’s strange that the face teams just don’t get the reaction that the heel teams do. However I am really seeing some good things from the Usos and they are getting over with their entrance and in ring skill so it’s all good. Then the Rhodes brothers are just getting better and better all the time. The Real Americans are just way over with their catchphrases and Cesaros big swing move. The Shield needs no mention with just immense talent split between the 3 of them, with Reigns getting some big spots as of late, maybe he is the one to watch in the team.

1.       Dean Ambrose is eliminated 1^st by Cody Rhodes after arguing with the ref and Cody getting the roll up.

2.       Jay Uso eliminates Jack Swagger after hitting a top rope splash.

3.       Cody Rhodes eliminates Antonio Cesaro by pin fall.

4.       Roman Reigns eliminates Jay Uso after hitting him with the spear

5.       Roman Reigns eliminates Cody Rhodes after hitting him with a spear

6.       Seth Rollins eliminates the other Uso brother to make it 2 on 2

7.       Rey Mysterio Eliminates Seth Rollins

8.       Roman Reigns eliminates Goldust

9.       Roman Reigns eliminates Rey Mysterio

The winners are Team Shield / Real Americans with Roman Reigns as the sole survivor. I mentioned earlier how strong Reigns was being used as of late and this only amplifies that booking, he eliminates 4 of the 5 opposition team, wow now that is epic.

Match # 2 Intercontinental Championship Match

Big E Langston (c) Vs. Curtis Axel

Now I think this match has been booked all wrong, I think it would have made sense for Axel to drop the belt here at the PPV rather than lose it on a Raw TV show. Axel has been booked like crap anyway as of late but they should have at least waited till now to have him lose. Big E Langston is your new Bobby Lashley in my opinion, his initials even match for Christ sake, and I don’t really think he is IC champ material, not yet anyway but I guess I’m not booking the show. If Axel wins this I will eat my hat. I think if they had kept him booked strong Axel would be doing much better than he has been, it’s just a shame they kind of let his Paul Heyman association do all his talking.

Big E Langston wins after hitting Axel with the Big Ending, which I would like to add, is a horrible name for a finishing move but suits the horrible looking finisher it labels. Wasn’t the best match in the world but certainly served to put over Big E Langston. Such a shame about Axel though.

Segment

AJ Lee is in the back addressing her team for the divas tag match. When did Kaitlyn turn heel?!

Match # 3 Survivor Series match

Total Divas vs. The “TRUE” Divas

I have a feeling this is going to be WAY TOO LONG! Shouldn’t be an elimination match, it should just be a normal tag match. When did Kaitlyn turn heel?! The set up for this match is obvious really; it’s the reality TV divas vs. the remaining divas, pretty simple yeah? Now the divas matches as of late haven’t been too bad so this may surprise despite its length. When did Kaitlyn turn heel?! God she is hot, maybe hotter if she is now a heel! Sorry I’m distracted.

1.       Naomi eliminates Alicia Fox

2.       Rosa Mendes eliminates Cameron

3.       Nikki Bella eliminates Rosa Mendes

4.       Nikki Bella eliminates Summer Rae

5.       Kaitlyn eliminates Eva Marie

6.       Kaitlyn eliminates Naomi

7.       Brie Bella eliminates Kaitlyn

8.       Aksana eliminates Brie Bella

9.       Nikki Bella eliminates Aksana (GREAT FINISH)

10.   AJ Lee eliminates JoJo

11.   Natalya eliminates Tamina

12.   Natalya eliminates AJ Lee

Total divas win with Natalya and Nikki Bella left wasn’t brilliant but was certainly quicker than I thought it would be.

Segment

Orton is in the back talking to ref Charles Robinson and he tells him to cal the match down the middle, and how they have been friends a long time etc. Robinson tells him he will do what the Authority says.

Goes to the legends panel with Mick Foley, Booker T and Bret Hart and they go to chat but Ryback comes out and interrupts them, he chats crap about them. He issues an open challenge.

Match # 4

Ryback vs. Mark Henry

Boy somebody is going to get their ass kicked!!! Mark Henry is back and looking good with the bald head. Ryback or Goldberg light isn’t going to be able to match the World’s Strongest Man!! Ok the match isn’t going to be a technical masterpiece but will have some good power moves in I imagine. I freaking love Mark Henry!! If Mark Henry is charging you for air then you had better keep your bill paid son!!!!

Mark Henry wins (OBVIOUSLY) after hitting Gold-back with the World’s Strongest Slam!! Fantastic, both guys got some power offence but Henry comes out on top as he should. It’s good that we now have a Monster face again, was Kane for ages but now he gone all corporate there isn’t that real scary monster face.

Segment

Back to the hall of fame people, they chat about the PPV.

Match # 5 – World Heavyweight Championship Match

John Cena (c) Vs. Alberto Del Rio

This match marks the beginning of the end for the world title, if anyone has seen what occurs after this PPV will understand, so really it’s pretty obvious who is going to win this. Is it me or does John Cena seem to be getting a few more cheers as of late compared to this time last year, this could be a good sign that fans have accepted him more despite his limited move set. Del Rio on the other hand is an awesome wrestler but his runs as champ have never been that good, which is a real shame as he is a damn good wrestler and I imagine he will carry most of the offence in this match.

John Cena pins Alberto Del Rio after hitting him with the AA, it was an obvious result but wasn’t that a bad a match, as I suspected with Del Rio getting a lot of offence and Cena hitting a quick fire AA for the win at the end.

Segment

R Truth / Santino are in the back playing with a WWE toy, then Los Matadores turn up, followed by Fandango, followed by Johnny Ace, now thats a turn up!! PEOPLE POWER!!!

Match # 6 – Tag Team Match

The Wyatt Family vs. “The Beard & The Best”

Has been built quite well this match and they have done a great job of keeping these guys away from the main event storyline especially Punk. However you have got two exception talents in this match with Punk & Bryan, even against the relatively new Wyatt family this match should impress. They haven’t revealed much about the Wyatt family’s intentions with regards to attacking these two other than cryptic messages given but to be honest I don’t think they need a motivation really, they are pretty much based on psycho killer family number 1 so their motivation isn’t important but do think they are a cool gimmick.

CM Punk hits Luke Harper with the GTS to get the pin fall victory for his team, was actually a really good match, certainly gave the Wyatt family some exposure and gives the fans a Punk / Bryan victory to go with it. Tease at Bray Wyatt entering at the end but the Wyatt family leaves instead as Punk and Bryan celebrates in the ring.

Match # 7 – WWE Championship Match

The Big Show vs. Randy Orton (c)

The face of the WWE vs. The world’s largest athlete which should be interesting even if the focus has been more on the HHH / Steph regime rather than Big Show vs. The champ. The big show has never been a really big draw but I understand that Orton going over the monster giant will help solidify his title reign. Of course this may not impact next month when he will be defending the belt against Cena in a unification match.

I’m still not sold on Orton’s new heel character, he seems more along the lines of a “chicken” heel and not as a psycho heel like he was in 2008 / 2009 which I thought was so much better personally.

The authority comes out to distract the Big Show, this allows Orton to hit the RKO followed by the punt kick to allow him to pin the Big Show and retain the WWE title.

This was bit of a cluster fuck of a match, there were a few mess ups and also it wasn’t that good a match which was a real shame because the build had been rather good.

Mini Segment

As Orton celebrates with his belt, Cena’s music hits and he makes his way to the ring and holds the world title up at Orton, this obviously setting up for the unification match at TLC.

 Summary

Think until the main event the PPV wasn’t too bad, even the bits I thought would be a bit rubbish weren’t that agonizing and it’s a shame the main event didn’t get that long and was a bit of a mess and the crowd reaction to it reflects that I think. But overall I have definitely seen worse PPVs but I do think they could have had at least 1 more survivor series style match on the card.

On to TLC it will be interesting to see what will happen with the unification match and who they will decide to go with as the unified champion. The usual plugs now, you can catch me on twitter @bigboss010 and my friend Jim @kingjimmeh. Catch you next time for TLC.

 I’m Big Boss and I’m out.... Peace. 

Warhammer 40,000 - Chaos Space Marine & Daemon Allies

This is a little out of topic for me but has gotten me quite excited with regards to another hobby of mine outside of watching wrestling and that being Warhammer 40k (one of many hobbies btw).

                       

It started when I decided to glance through the Chaos Daemons codex, a few of my friends have decided to sell their Daemons off since this codex was released since they no longer like the way they play, their rambling got me interested so I took a look myself. The new Chaos Daemons codex is certainly not for anyone who has a shortage of dice or paper to write down a shed load of random powers that you end up giving your forces during the game, with everything depending on dice rolls and very little certainty on what powers you may end up with I can understand their scepticism over playing them as a primary force in the 6^th edition environment.

However, as an allied detachment I can see some use for them, this slightly (very) lowers the amount of dice rolling you have to do as you no longer have to roll for a warlord for them, you probably won’t be taking so many units you need to roll powers for and you do not have to activate the warp storm table every turn like you do when the Daemons are your primary army.  I hate how much dice rolling is involved with Chaos marines themselves due to the boon table,  so I aim to not add much more to my army list when determining which Daemons will be summoned to aid in my onslaught. Anyone who has played against me knows I like my guns, the bigger the better, lots of shots and plenty of damage that comes with it is my style of play, however I think Daemons offer some very unique close combat units, with this in mind I turned to the only god I could and that was Khorne for his blessings, this lead me to the Blood letters troop choice. Now before we go any further Daemons of Khorne are Daemons with furious charge and hatred (Daemons of Slaanesh).

Bloodletters are a simple Khorne troop selection from the Daemons codex, some general stats that can make for some good close combat with WS 5 and a AP3 power sword as standard you simply cannot fault them and 100 points for 10 is a bargain. You can also upgrade them with some useful little bits including a “instrument of chaos” which will be useful when deep striking in units of Daemons or units with the Daemon special rule (please note this down) and then there is the “Icon of chaos” that allows your deep striking to be a little more precise (keep that noted too). This icon can be upgraded to a “Banner of blood” for Bloodletters and this gives them a guaranteed 6 inches on their charges plus that 2^nd D6, which you can’t complain at really.

Now they need something major to lead them into the fray, something monstrous and something with wings!! Yeah I’m gonna go with the Bloodthirster, this flying monstrous creature is going to be a pain the arse for the opposition WS10, BS10, S6, T6, I9, A6 and a 3+ armour save with a 5+ invulnerable save isn’t anything to moan about and that’s before we get to the weaponry this guy carries. He carries the Axe of Khorne with is a user strength AP2 melee weapon with the decapitating blow special rule, this means that all to wound rolls of a 6 have the instant death special rule, not bad when facing down some of the harder charcters from 40k in close combat. Its other weapon is a cheeky little bit of firepower in the form of the Lash of Khorne, this is a 12 inch ranged assault 1, strength 6 AP1 gun that isn’t too bad considering the speed of a flying creature and its haste to get into 12 inch range, also at AP1 it could knock off a single man or knock a wound off a bigger character before you trounce them in close combat. Also the option to add up to 50 points of daemonic gifts, I have yet to decide how I will go here but the options are pretty cool for greater and exhaulted gifts.

There it is, a highly aggressive close combat allied detachment to go with your Chaos space marine warband, however to provide some synergy you will probably go quite heavy close combat with your primary detachment of traitors. I personally chose a Chaos lord with the Khorne mark allowing me to take Khorne Bezerkers as a troop choice instead of an elite choice, the lord is cheap and cheerful, then with his trusty power sword provides a reasonable foe in close combat. His squad of 13 Khorne Bezerkers on the other hand provide some real close combat power thanks to their increased WS of 5 teaming with the Khorne mark and Furious charge they can go to town on a poor unsuspecting squad of men. You can chose to upgrade them with chain axes to gain an AP4 melee weapon but I haven’t bothered at 3 points per model it’s a little steep when most of my competition will be space marines with a 3+ save the axe won’t bother. The Bezerker champ will also simply be used to sacrifice for the challenges that he will stupidly put himself into, in order to protect my lord from going into too many challenges, thanks to the new rules for “Champions of Chaos”.

Just to aid in swamping smaller squads or helping mop up harder to move squads we have the back up of 20 chaos cultists, the champion in the squad being used in sacrificial challenges, I love cultists as they are cheap and not too bad when in big groups at just swamping smaller squads, especially 5 man terminator squads which I proved recently in a game when a ten man cultist squad managed to take down a 5 man terminator squad in CC. Hey Stu ;-). We keep them as they are with a pistol of close combat weapon to gain extra attacks for having 2 close combat weapons and do not bother with the larger guns.

Onto my favourite topic, the heavy support! We start with a Predator, an unusual choice for me but I do own one so I may as well use it at some point, it’s a cheap tank that comes with an auto cannon as standard and I am also adding some lascannon side sponsons just for some heavy duty firepower, not as many shots as I would usually like but the strength and AP of the weapons make up for that, use it from far away to help whittle down numbers before my close combat forces pile in.

My other choice is a standard pick for me and that is a 3 man Obliterator cult, this for me is the best heavy support choice in the game, it’s sickening how good these can be with a little tactical thinking, choosing the right gun to fire with and where you DEEP STRIKE them, your starting to get a picture building now, they have the DAEMON special rule (you getting it yet). So when you roll a successful reserve roll for your B squad of Khorne Bloodletters you can select 1 unit with the Daemon special rule in reserve also and deep strike them in with your bloodletters and within 6 inches of an Icon of Chaos. This means that squad in front of you’re a squad Bloodletters is going to get one hell of a shock if this happens to them, how would you feel if the bad guys in front of you doubled in number and then threw some pretty sickening array of firepower in your general direction. Sadly they will be brandishing the mark of Nurgle, this giving them toughness 5 halting 90% of instant kill weapons and sadly meaning they still scatter when deep striking even next to the icon holder, however it is only 1 D6 so the heat isn’t off for the opposition.

This brings me to the end of my concept piece here, I hope to do a follow up for this after I have actually playtested this idea and seen what it can do. You can follow me on twitter @bigboss010 and you can follow my good friend over @siteofshite too. 

Im Big Boss and I'm out, peace!